THE LINEMAN

I used to hold the line on a football field. Now I hold it in a network rack.

I'm Dylan Doyle — a network analyst at Halton District School Board, based in Burlington, ON. I studied the BIT NET joint program between Carleton University and Algonquin College — four years learning how networks actually work, then two summers at Halton's IS-IS department proving it. They kept me on full time after graduation.

Now I'm CCNA 200-301 certified and working toward the CCNP Enterprise, running a Fortinet home lab — FortiGate 60F, FortiSwitch 124D, and a FortiAP 421E — and self-hosting everything I build on Linux from scratch. This site included.

Outside the rack, I'm training. I've completed an Olympic triathlon and a half marathon, and I'm building toward a full Ironman — slowly, deliberately, the same way I approach everything. One packet at a time.

TheLineman is where I document all of it — the certs, the lab, the grind. If you're on a similar path, pull up a chair._